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| Name: |
Muriel Sarah Spark | | Birth Date: |
February 1, 1918 | | Place of Birth: |
Edinburgh, Scotland | | Nationality: |
Scottish | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
writer |
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Biography of Muriel Sarah Spark
1071 words, approx. 3.6 pages
 Muriel Sarah Spark (born 1918) wrote biography, literary criticism, poetry, and fiction, including the novel that was considered her masterpiece, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Born in Edinburgh on February 1, 1918, Muriel Spark worked in the Political I...
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Biography of Muriel Sarah Spark
11275 words, approx. 37.6 pages
 Muriel Spark came to the novel after a variety of writing experiences. As a free-lance journalist after her intelligence work in World War II, Spark wrote for the Argentor, a jewelry trade magazine, and she had poetry published before she became general...
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Biography of Muriel (Sarah) Spark
9494 words, approx. 31.6 pages
 Muriel Spark came to the novel after a variety of writing experiences. As a free-lance journalist after her intelligence work in World War II, Spark wrote for the Argentor, a jewelry trade magazine, and she had poetry published before she became general...



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The Ballad of Peckham Rye Information
824 words, approx. 3 pages
 The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a novel written in 1960 by the Scottish author Muriel Spark. It tells the story of a devilish Scottish migrant, Dougal Douglas, who moves to Peckham in London and wreaks havoc amongst the lives of the inhabitants. The text...




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 The Independent - London
The Ballad Of Peckham Rye Muriel Spark ; Book Of A Lifetime
02/02/2007: 477 words, approx. 2 pages The current, stainless-steel-look Penguin Classics cover for The Ballad of Peckham Rye has a photo on it of a young man with curly hair, looking naughty, ie, mischievous and sexy. My spirits both drop and rise when I see it, in the window of...
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 Publishers Weekly
THE BALLAD OF PECKNAM RYE.(Review)
04/05/1999: 327 words, approx. 1 pages Muriel Spark. New Directions, $11.95 paper (l44p) ISBN 0-8112-1408-7 Touched with a Satanic glamour and a manner so disarming that grown men dissolve in tears at his slightest provocation, the Pied Piper of Spark's charming 1960 satire captivates the residents of Peckham, a...
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 The New York Observer
How The New Yorker Made Muriel Spark's Reputation
4/17/2006: 1,085 words, approx. 4 pages In 1957, when Spark was 39 and unknown, someone at the English publisher Hamish Hamilton sent along to a friend at The New Yorker a startling story that had lately been published (in a magazine called Botteghe Oscure) by an unknown called Muriel Spark. "The...
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 The New York Observer
Intellectual Monster: The Life and Work of Muriel Spark
4/17/2006: 1,696 words, approx. 6 pages As a fresh devotee (the zeal of the convert), it seems to me I might perform a service now by telling others about her. I'll do so in two entries. First my general take on the life and work. And then a more specific treatment,...


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The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark | |
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